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Advertising Global Servers

To assign a server to the global set of servers, you must advertise the server with the dcecp dts configure command. Advertising the server simultaneously adds binding information to the server's CDS name and also adds the server's entry to the cell profile. Since CDS and the cell profile are available to every node in your network, DTS can perform a lookup in the cell profile to obtain the locations of nodes that it cannot reach on the LAN.

The following command example shows how to advertise a server as a global server, thereby registering it with CDS and entering it in the cell profile:

dcecp> dts configure -global
dcecp>

The -global option designates that a server should be configured as a global server, rather than a local server.

To remove a server's designation as a global server, use the dts configure command as follows:

dcecp> dts configure -notglobal
dcecp>

This command unadvertises the global server, removing its entry from the cell profile and its binding information from its CDS name.